Bod-Inc: N-118
Nitzschewitz, Hermannus
Novum Psalterium Beatae Virginis Mariae.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A2r Nitzschewitz, Hermannus: Novum Psalterium Beatae Virginis Mariae [dedicated to] Frederick, Roman Emperor and Maximilian I, Roman Emperor. Incipit: ‘[F]actum hoc nouum et infrascriptum beate Marie virginis psalterium ad honorem . . .’ See F. K. Clajus, ‘Der Marienpsalter der Klosterdruckerei Zinna vom Jahre 1493', Das Antiquariat, 13 (1957), 193-6; E. Hühns, ‘Der Marienpsalter der Kloster Zinna', Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3rd ser. 6 (1975), 38-43; VL VI 1166-8.
L5v [Numai], Alexander: ‘Copia litterarum Allexandri Episcopi Forliuiensis legati a latere in partibus Germanie de confirmatione et approbatione fraternitatis psalterii virginis Marie.’ Incipit: ‘[A]llexander dei et apostolice sedis . . . Et si gloriosos celestis curie concines . . .’ Dated Cologne 10 Mar. 1476.
Imprint
Imprint: Zinna: Press of the Cistercian Monastery (Johann Luce?), [c.1493-5.] 4°.
Remarks: On the identity of the printer see Ferdinand Geldner, Die deutschen Inkunabeldrucker, 2 vols (Stuttgart, 1968-70), I 268. As dated by CIBN; Polain dates [c.1494-6], Sheppard [not after 1496].
Collation
Collation: A B8 C10 A–F8 H8 [*]4 HH I–K8 L6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts: see BMC.
References
ISTC: in00260000
Hain: H *11891;
Goff: Goff N‑260;
BMC: BMC III 700;
Proctor: Pr 3226;
Others: BSB‑Ink N‑208; CIBN N‑150; Oates 1342; Polain 2895; Sack, Freiburg, 2604; Schreiber V 4859; Sheppard 2270.
LCN: 14540299
Copies
Copy number: N-118(1)
Leaf A1 mounted.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold- and blind-tooled diced calf; blue-edged leaves; blue marbled pastedowns and blue silk bookmark.
Size: 218 × 160 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 152 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, extracting key words, in red in the rubricator's hand. On the verso of the front endleaf bibliographical notes in Latin and in German in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century hands.
Two- and three-line initials (with extensions into the margins) and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Underlining of chapter headings and capital strokes in red. With rubricator's date 1496; see below.
Provenance: České Budějovice (Budweis), Bohemia, Dominicans, BVM; cancelled inscription on L6v: ‘Per me fratrem Caspar Pronner Lithomericensem est iste libellus incorporatus [i.e. rubricated; cf. another inscription in Goldschmidt I 32 n. 1] et emtus Anno domini 1496 in ottaua visitacionis virginis gloriose et pertinet conuentui Budwyensis'. Purchased for £1. 16. 0: see Books Purchased (1846), 31.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° σ17.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.70.
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